Rhetorical Practice

rhetorical appeal concerned with how to reach an audience emotionally

• pathos

• ethos

• tone

• syntax

The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

• modifier

• parallelism

• antecedent

• anaphora

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas usually in parallel structure

• parallelism

• antithesis

• modifier

• anaphora

Rhetoric is the art of effectively __________ and ___________ to persuade.

• reading/ writing 

• entertaining/informing

• speaking/writing

• all of the above

What is "the faculty of observing . . . the available means of persuasion" in any situation?

• Subject

• Rhetoric

• Tone

• Occasion

The ability to discover all of the available means of persuasion in any situation.

• Subject

• Rhetoric

• Tone

• Occasion

Question asked just for effect or to put emphasis on a point when no real answer is expected

• allusion

• rhetorical question

• anecdote

• simile

What is the term for the context in which communication takes place, including the speaker, audience, and purpose?

• Ethos

• Rhetorical Situation

• Pathos

• Logos

What is rhetoric?

• A type of question

• Dinosaur breed from the Crustacean period

• Effective speech or writing

• Appealing to reason

The problem, incident, or situation causing the speaker to create the text. The “spark”.

• Occasion

• Exigence

• Audience

• Constraints